GOP Says Union Effort
Doomed OSHA Proposal

By

Jim Vandehei Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Feb. 16, 2000 11:59 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Business officials were privately told by GOP leaders that their crusade to provide small-business owners with more authority to fight the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was all-but doomed by union pressure applied to moderate Republicans.

At the behest of lobbyists representing the Associated Builders and Contractors, Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois had scheduled a vote for Thursday on whether to give...